Quotes About Conscience

Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king. A quiet and cheerful temperament, happy in the enjoyment of a perfectly sound physique, an intellect clear, lively, penetrating and seeing things as they are, a moderate and gentle will, and therefore a good conscience–these are privileges which no rank or wealth can make up for or replace.

the true believer who commits heretics to the flames is as much a murderer as the bandit who makes a profit from his murder

If you are deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.

You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.

the only thing that can make a man do something he doesn't like is guilt

The fundamental evil of government grants is the fact that men are forced to pay for the support of ideas diametrically opposed to their own. This is a profound violation of an individual's integrity and conscience.

But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.

Mrs. Martin, I happen to be committed to a course of action. That does not mean I don't care whether the action is good or bad.

Naš zadatak odgovara prije svega jednoj historijskoj zada?i. Nijedna tema nije tabu za histori?are kao što ni zamke ni presije svake vrste - politi?ke, ideološke, li?ne - ne smije sprije?iti da se slijedi put saznavanja, ekshumacije i interpretacije ?injenica, naro?ito ako su bile dovoljno sakrivane u tajni arhiva i savjesti. ....To je moralna obaveza odavanja po?asti mrtvima, naro?ito kada su nevine i anonimne žrtve Moloha koji ima apsolutnu vlast...

It was "the duty of every subject, for conscience's sake, to submit to his authority, while he acts according to the law." Should he imperil the natural right and liberties of his subjects, however, "he overthrows the very design of government, and the people are discharged from all obedience.

Things disturb us in the night. Sometimes they are our consciences. Sometimes they are our secrets. Sometimes they are our fears, translated from one idiom to another. Often what pinches and pricks, gnaws, claws, stabs, and suffocates, like a seventeenth-century witch, is the irritatingly unsolved puzzle in the next room. The

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good mind you. The rest had to be shoved somewhere out of sight, under the rug. Which History did at times politely, at times police-ly, and yet something was always sticking out, breaking lose, overthrowing.

The worst things are done not by people who believe they are doing wrong, but by those who are convinced that they walk with the hand of God on one shoulder.

When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion -- that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet -- therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.

Our problems don't stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.

No man can observe you as I have observed you and not know that it was a matter of conscience with you, but I am afraid, my friend, that it is one of the blunders of virtue. The

people are not capable of being evil, they are only capable of evil; that is the crucial difference that allows repentance and forgiveness

La capacidad humana para sentirse culpable es tal que siempre podemos hallar maneras de acusarnos a nosotros mismos.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.